“Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.”— George R. R. Martin, amazon.com
“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”— William Goldman, amazon.com
“Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”— J. K. Rowling, amazon.com
“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“By not allowing ourselves to be vulnerable we might block shame, pain and disappointment. But so also growth, pleasure and love. If we don’t allow ourselves to be vulnerable, we don’t allow ourselves to experience life fully.”— Maria Stenvinkel, thoughtcatalog.com
“Being open and vulnerable will lead us to, sometimes, experience pain. But what is pain? It is simply a feeling. It is not forever. If you get pain from some person or thing too many times, you can always walk away. To risk a lifetime without pleasure simply to avoid pain is ludicrous.”— Vironika Tugaleva, amazon.com
“Those who have hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment.”— Rick Warren, amazon.com
“From the bottom, only one can go up! Women like her can rule the world.”— Mirtha Michelle Castro, amazon.com
“Pain. Unspeakable pain. It didn’t matter who in this world or any other was staring at me, watching me, seeking to share this moment or merely shuddering as I experienced it. Just didn’t matter. Because in pain like this one is always alone.”— Anne Rice, amazon.com
“You’re going to get hurt, and you will feel pain. Yet your purpose is to keep loving, anyway. Keep moving forward with an open heart.”— Alaric Hutchinson, amazon.com
“People frequently comment on the emptiness in one night stands, but emptiness here has always been just another word for darkness. Blind encounters writing sonnets no one can ever read. Desire and pain communicated in the vague language of sex.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.com
“Strong girls get hurt more because they expect more out of people. Their standards are high because they treat people the way they expect to be treated.”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.com
“Crying turns to laughing and laughing to crying - if the storm is intense enough, all the fuses in the house blow.”— Sarah Manguso, amazon.com